This comic was long in the making. I first thought of it, or something like it, while taking Rabbi Lisa Rubin's six-month-long Exploring Judaism class at New York's Central Synagogue. It's an overview of a few thousand years of religion and history, and I guess it stirred my creative pot. The class is softly aimed at people looking to convert to Reform Judaism, but as far as I'm concerned it's a history lesson that'd be approachable to anyone interested in Judaism, for whatever reason.

This entire comic—lines to colors to lettering—was finger-painted on an iPad Mini2 using Adobe Draw. The reason for using this technique was simple: I don't know what I'm doing. So this sort of broke my hand and now I'm investigating more normal techniques for creating comics and illustrating digitally.

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In prepping to publicize this comic to my vast following of tens of people, I played around with different thumbnail images for the comics. I ended up with the ones visible above, but below are a few alternate ideas.

The comics above were written a couple of weeks ago, in response to Donald Trump's frothy insistence the media was crooked and showing him in a bad light, and that only this was the reason he was doing bad in the polls.

It was going to be a trilogy, and I had a third cartoon lined up, but then two things happened:

I got tired of thinking and looking at that man.

Actually no, just the one thing happened. I didn't want to draw him (or some semi-acceptable facsimile likeness of him) again.

I don't know whether to envy professional political cartoonists right now.